Today’s newest external enclosure designs are based on architectures that support both SATA and SAS drives. The MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e, with eight external SATA+SAS ports, is ideal for configuring these external enclosures with your choice of high-performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or energy-efficient solid state drives (SSDs). With data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port, the MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e bring users new features and improved performance, while continuing to support all the features of the previous 3Gb/s SATA+SAS generation. This feature line controller employs the latest in RAID-on-Chip technology, complies with the PCI Express® 2.0 specification and provides additional data security using LSI™ SafeStore™ encryption services.
Features
- Eight external SATA+SAS ports
- Two mini-SAS SFF-8088 x4 connectors
- 6Gb/s throughput per port
- LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip (ROC)
o 800MHz PowerPC® - Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6” X 2.536”)
- x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
- 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)
- Optional battery backup unit (direct attach)
- Connect up to 240 SATA and/or SAS devices
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
- RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
- Auto-resume on rebuild
- Auto-resume on reconstruction
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
- Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
- SafeStore Encryption Services
o Instant secure erase - SSD support with SSD Guard™
- Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support
o Automatic rebuild
o Enclosure affinity
o Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays - Single controller multipathing (failover)
- I/O load balancing
- Comprehensive RAID management suite
Benefits
- Superior performance
o Maximum reads: 2,875MB/s
o Maximum writes: 1,850MB/s - PCI Express 2.0 provides faster signaling for high-bandwidth applications
- Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA and SAS hard drives
- Ideal for external subsystems using large numbers of SATA or SAS drives
- SafeStore Encryption Services for more secure data protection
- Low-profile MD2 form factor for space-limited 1U and 2U environments